American Marxism

Mark R. Levin

Jul 2021 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The seven-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, Fox News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin explains how the dangers he warned against in the “timely yet timeless” (David Limbaugh, author of Jesus Is Risen) bestseller Liberty and Tyranny have come to pass.

In 2009, Mark R. Levin galvanized conservatives with his unforgettable manifesto Liberty and Tyranny, by providing a philosophical, historical, and practical framework for halting the liberal assault on Constitution-based values. That book was about standing at the precipice of progressivism’s threat to our freedom and now, over a decade later, we’re fully over that precipice and paying the price.

In American Marxism, Levin explains how the core elements of Marxist ideology are now pervasive in American society and culture—from our schools, the press, and corporations, to Hollywood, the Democratic Party, and the Biden presidency—and how it is often cloaked in deceptive labels like “progressivism,” “democratic socialism,” “social activism,” and more. With his characteristic trenchant analysis, Levin digs into the psychology and tactics of these movements, the widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory and the Green New Deal, and the escalation of repression and censorship to silence opposing voices and enforce conformity. Levin exposes many of the institutions, intellectuals, scholars, and activists who are leading this revolution, and provides us with some answers and ideas on how to confront them.

As Levin writes: “The counter-revolution to the American Revolution is in full force. And it can no longer be dismissed or ignored for it is devouring our society and culture, swirling around our everyday lives, and ubiquitous in our politics, schools, media, and entertainment.” And, like before, Levin seeks to rally the American people to defend their liberty.

Ratings and reviews

Typical American anti-Communist drivel. The author is either incredibly ignorant, or wilfully lying. Levin labels everything that isn't "god, guns, and family" style American Nationalism under the label "Communism" and uncritically blames that nonsensically applied label for every perceived and inflated problem in the U.S. This book is nothing more than McCarthy Era anti-Communism propaganda drivel. Don't waste your time with it. It doesn't provide anything even approximating a well-informed, academic, honest analysis of Marxism, contemporary or historic U.S. politics, or anything else.

'American Marxism' by Mark Levin comes across as a paranoid attack on all political ideologies left of traditional conservatism and labels them an attack on freedom. Considers efforts to improve air quality and water a ploy by intellectuals to subvert the American process and consider people bringing attention to climate change autocratic and repression of the human spirit. It is deadly paranoid of the 'Green New Deal,' which has yet to be put into place in the United States of America, and decries ecologists as propaganda makers. It offers no solution to the rising temperatures in my home state of California; it does not mention the soon-to-be underwater nation-state of the Maldives; its arguments are meandering and go off into tangents that don't loop back into the rhetoric. Capitalism, in my opinion, is the superior economic system to socialism. But the author of this book is so afraid of anything that is not right-wing that it is registered in his head as communism to the utmost. My stepfather bought me this book from Amazon, suspiciously after I have begun to research the Democratic Socialists of America, Jacobin Magazine, and Means TV. My interests in these organizations were tepid and likely to fade away in some days. Still, my political position as a social democrat has been made concrete upon reading this book. I am putting this book into the fireplace where it belongs. I will allow that it is well researched - it is impressively filled with anecdotes and filled with quotes from the 'Marxists,' but the arguments they follow up with to dispute are not compelling or engaging. 'Actually, the EJ movement is mostly led and driven by Marxist-oriented elites, academics, and activists, like most of these movements, while enticing many unsuspecting followers.' My most considerable criticism of this book is its disgusting anti-intellectualism. All of this work's polemic stems from the 'guys,' as in 'gut feeling.' Populism/fascism is near-universally associated with appeals to emotion and "common sense" instead of rationality and academic knowledge. Dumb is good. Don't think, feel. That is the message that I am receiving right with this book. I am reminded of Faisal Islam of Sky News interviewing British conservative politician Michael Gove in the run-up to the Brexit Referendum: Gove: I think the people in this country have had enough of experts, with organizations from acronyms, saying— Interviewer: They've had enough of experts? The people have had enough of experts? What do you mean by that? Gove: People from organizations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong. Interviewer: The people of this country have had enough of experts? Gove: Because these people are the same ones who got consistently wrong what was happening. Interviewer: This is proper Trump politics this, isn't it? Gove: No, it's actually a faith in the— Interviewer: It's Oxbridge Trump. Gove: It's a faith, Faisal, in the British people to make the right decision. If any other people look at my review of this work and label me an enemy to America, a snowflake, an angry liberal, or something equally stupid, there is nothing I can do to stop you. But might does not make right, and ignorance is not bliss; this book resorts heavily to paranoia and the idea that capitalism makes people super-humans. Please do not read this book.

Mark Levin is a very good writer and well-spoken individual. I find him to be highly entertaining. The problem is that he blows everything out of proportion. EVERYTHING. This book is essentially an extremist's attempt to brainwash you by bringing to your attention the fact that there are extremists attempting to brainwash you. OH THE IRONY... This book was written for the AM conservative talk radio/Fox News angry white guy crowd. I'm sure it will sell millions of copies.

About the author

Mark R. Levin, nationally syndicated talk radio host, host of LevinTV, chairman of Landmark Legal Foundation, and the host of the Fox News show Life, Liberty, & Levin, is the author of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers: Liberty and Tyranny, Ameritopia, The Liberty Amendments, Plunder and Deceit, Rediscovering Americanism, Unfreedom of the Press, and American Marxism. Liberty and Tyranny spent three months at #1 and sold more than 1.5 million copies. His books Men in Black and Rescuing Sprite were also New York Times bestsellers. Levin is an inductee of the National Radio Hall of Fame and was a top adviser to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s cabinet. He holds a BA from Temple University and a JD from Temple University Law School.